Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034
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Messier 81 & Messier 82 (HaRGB), Linda
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Description

It's taken me quite a while to process this to something approaching a decent result.

The first time through I had a problem with my R, G and B flats that I didn't realize until I went to integrate weeks later and so had to retake those flats. Fortunately, the new flats worked.

Processing for revision C (and later):

HA:
Deconvolution
DBE
MLT noise reduction
arcsinhstretch (only to 25)

RGB:
ChannelCombination
Deconvolution
DBE
PCC
MLT noise reduction (luminance & chrominance)
arcsinhstretch (only to 25)
Pixelmath to add in ha
HT
LHE
Curves
AdvSharpening

Comments

Revisions

  • Messier 81 & Messier 82 (HaRGB), Linda
    Original
  • Messier 81 & Messier 82 (HaRGB), Linda
    B
  • Messier 81 & Messier 82 (HaRGB), Linda
    C
  • Final
    Messier 81 & Messier 82 (HaRGB), Linda
    D

B

Description: Did some background cleanup. This helped the blue cast but made some of the noise more apparent.

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C

Description: Redid post processing from scratch. This is not as bright, especially M81 but it blends into the background better and the image is much more detailed than the previous versions.

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D

Description: I was able to raise the midrange up a bit to add a bit more brightness to the pair.

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Messier 81 & Messier 82 (HaRGB), Linda

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